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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 29, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The NoScript Misnomer
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• Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google
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• Squib: A Ruby DSL for prototyping card and board games
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• Tota11y
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• Should I Work for Free?
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• Why ClojureScript Matters
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• Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002)
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• Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox
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• Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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• New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 28, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Understanding the Node.js Event Loop
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• Why Google Employees Quit (2009)
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• Tell HN: Commercial VPN service now in open source
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• Show HN: Phishing as a service
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• Mario running in Unreal Engine 4 [video]
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• ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy
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• Why do ten Chicken McNuggets cost the same as twenty?
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• Hacking Super Mario World to Warp to the Credits [video]
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• SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure
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• U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-27

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 27, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos
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• HN Office Hours with Kevin and Sam
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• ‘I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium’
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• The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris
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• The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed
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• 4chan discusses HN
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• Ask HN: How big does an open-source project need to be for a lifestyle business?
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• Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates
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• Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub
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• Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-26

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 26, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Quake in your browser
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• Uber's Original Blog and First Posts
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• Tell HN: Entrepreneurs, make sure you are getting guaranteed wins in life
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• LLVM merges SafeStack
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• Life paint
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• Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
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• Fighting spam with Haskell
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• Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
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• Running Lisp in Production
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• How side projects saved our startup
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-25

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 25, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Redis Geo
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• Telegram Bot Platform
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• Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
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• How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops
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• Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
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• The Unix Philosophy
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• Killing Off Wasabi
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• Atom 1.0
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• What happens when you stop relying on resumes
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• Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 24, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Happy 10th birthday to us
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• Columbia becomes the first US university to divest from private prison companies
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• Samsung disabling Windows Update?
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• Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
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• A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single hair
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• Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
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• Erlang/OTP 18.0 has been released
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• What's Really Warming the World?
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• Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job
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• We need to rethink employee compensation
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 23, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RunC – A lightweight universal runtime container, by the Open Container Project
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• The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative to Go
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• Mobile Changes Everything
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• Fourier series
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• The man with 1,000 klein bottles under his house [video]
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• Commit messages are not titles
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• The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change
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• I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed
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• Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio
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• Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 22, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wooden combination lock
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• Megaprocessor
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• “AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”
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• Going undercover as a sex worker
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• Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus Rift
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• Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development
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• Just Wear Headphones
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• DoJ's Gag Order on Reason Has Been Lifted
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• SSD Prices in a Free Fall
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• Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 21, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi password to strangers
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• No Time to Be Nice at Work
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• Answer to a 150-Year-Old Math Conundrum Brings More Mystery
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• X86 mov is turing complete: mov-only compiler
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• Welcome to OpenGL
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• Management things I learned at Imgur
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• It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]
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• To Apple, Love Taylor
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• Asciinema
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• We Tried Slack and Regretted It
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 20, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
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• Who Do You Trust?
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• Futures for C++11 at Facebook
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• IMAX apologizes to Ars for its trademark retraction demand
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• Spot the Ball
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• Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life
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• You Draw It: Family Income vs. College Attendence
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• How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about
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• Stealing keys from PCs using a radio: cheap electromagnetic attacks
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• Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 19, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)
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• All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
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• “Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests”
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• Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
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• Redis re-implemented in Rust
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• EFF, CloudFlare Asks Court Not to Force the Internet to Enforce Trademarks
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• GitFlow considered harmful
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• IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars
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• “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
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• Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 18, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
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• Projects the Hard Way – Coding Projects for Early Coders
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• What Dads' Play Does for Kids
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• Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
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• Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly
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• How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1
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• Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
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• Google Is Now Listing SourceForge as a Malicious Site
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• Stripe Is the New PayPal
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• Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 17, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a record
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• Y Combinator growth equity fund?
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• DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
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• Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X
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• How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
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• Early vs. Beginning Coders
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• Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission
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• From Asm.js to WebAssembly
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• ECMAScript 2015 Approved
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• AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 16, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Art of Command Line
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• U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On?
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• When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
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• Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
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• Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
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• U.S. Bans Trans Fat
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• How to receive a million packets per second
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• Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule
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• KeePass – questionable security
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• Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 15, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• UI Design Dos and Don'ts
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• Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?
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• Useful Techniques in Go
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• Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
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• UBlock Origin
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• SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
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• Favicon bug
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• Dynamics.js, a JavaScript library to create physics-based animations
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• I Do Not Agree to Your Terms
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• LastPass Security Notice
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 14, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why the US federal employee record breach is worse than others
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• Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks
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• Software engineering blogs
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• Gradify turns the most prominent colors in an image into a CSS gradient
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• MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games
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• Questions about the Sunday Times Snowden Story
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• Philae comet lander wakes up
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• Greenwald: \"The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism at Its Worst\"
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• I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss
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• Reasons the MI6 Story Is a Lie
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 13, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default
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• Financial Indicators for Startups at Different Stages
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• Show HN: Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web
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• PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS
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• NixOS Linux
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• A YouTube built for gamers
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• How to Make Almost Anything
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• Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
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• Why Go is doomed to succeed
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• Why did Borland fail?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 12, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Computer scientists prove that a 40-year-old algorithm is optimal
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• Creating a language using only assembly language
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• Experimental Dependency Vendoring in Go 1.5
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• Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful
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• Snowden Document Search
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• European Parliament TTIP vote postponed ‘because of huge public pressure’
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• “An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 transit provider”
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• Show HN: Retroospect – How was your work week?
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• 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat and AC
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• Let's Encrypt Overview
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 11, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Generating Magic cards using deep, recursive neural networks
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• How We Designed for Performance and Scale
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• The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads
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• Google Launches Sidewalk Labs
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• Tarsnap GUI for the desktop
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• What Is Code?
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• Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93
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• Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship
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• Oculus Rift
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• Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 10, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LightSail Test Mission Declared Success; First Image Complete
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• Musk files to provide Internet service from space
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• JavaScript Cold War simulation
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• iOS 8.3 Mail.app inject kit
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• Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
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• I quit the tech industry
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• Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'
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• Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M
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• ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation
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• Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but...
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 09, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to undo almost anything with Git
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• A Constructive Look at TempleOS
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• What's new in Xcode 7
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• Firefox OS on Android Devices
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• The Making of Lemmings
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• Show HN: Learn Swift
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• Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
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• Placebo Button
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• Show HN: Universal Pause Button
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• It's the Future
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 08, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]
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• How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10
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• Goodbye Marco
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• Terms of Service, Didn't Read
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• How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (2012)
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• NSA whistleblower warns of surveillance state
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• ADP intentionally broke its Zenefits integration
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• Google Ideas
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• Add Amazon root certificates
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• “Swift will be open source later this year”
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 07, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Holding Your Breath in India
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• Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine [video]
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• Distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
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• HTML is done
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• Chalkboard drawings frozen in time for 100 years discovered in Oklahoma school
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• TempleOS: FlightSim and FirstPersonShooter [video]
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• How I killed app sales by going freemium
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• Unix is not an acceptable Unix
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• Paris Metro lines on a Git graph
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• Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 06, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end
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• GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income
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• Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development
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• Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Pocket Integration
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• A year with Go
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• Crystal Language
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• The real scars of Korean gaming
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• TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy
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• Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest
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• Java: Real or Not?
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 05, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RedditStorage
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• Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates
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• Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea
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• Three months of Rust
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• Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
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• Steam Hardware pre-order
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• In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief
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• Goodbye?
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• Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer
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• Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 04, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Japanese Change Trays
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• What Twitter Can Be
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• Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband
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• Tmux has left SourceForge
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• Eight years today (2012)
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• Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React
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• OpenSesame – A device that can open fixed-code garage doors in seconds
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• Hello World
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• Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
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• FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 03, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SSDs: A gift and a curse
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• Transatomic Power
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• Senate Approves Bill to Rein in N.S.A. Surveillance
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• Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy
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• How we uncovered the identity of popular spyware makers
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• Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
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• WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal
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• MonolithFirst
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• GitUp makes Git painless
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• Let Snowden Come Home
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 02, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How Is Critical Life or Death Software Tested?
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• Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox
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• Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends alkaline battery life 800%
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• Thunderbolt 3 embraces USB Type-C connector, doubles bandwidth to 40Gbps
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• Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality
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• How to boost your Vim productivity
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• FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities
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• All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem
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• Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
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• Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-06-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on June 01, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• FBI doesnt want you to know it uses NSLs to correlate identities you use online
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• Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half
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• Section 215 Expires For Now
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• Dear Paul
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• Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
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• Securing Email Communications from Facebook
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• Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B
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• Is ReactJS really fast?
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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
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• Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder
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Daily Hacker News for 2015-05-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 31, 2015 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
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• Google Photos – Can I get out?
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• Yesterday's best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns
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• Italian boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes
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• Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem
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• The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing
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• Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?
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• The Archer's Paradox in Slow Motion [video]
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• Coursera is phasing out free certificates
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• Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh
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